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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Sage Container Gardening

Grow a sage
container garden for your culinary kitchen or outdoor
garden. This easy container garden will add color and interest your living space. The foliage of the sage is attractive as
the leaves vary in color. Some sage leaves are green
with touches of yellow, others are purple with touches of gray, and some are a
rich shade of green that compliments both purple and yellow. The sage
herb is easy to grow provided it has direct light
and dry heat.

This year I am
growing Honeydew Melon sage. It has dark
green leaves with red flowers in the summer.
The flowers have a fruity fragrance that attracts butterflies to my
garden. We use sprigs of the honey melon
sage to garnish our summer beverages; lemonade and sweet tea. The honey melon sage is a delicious herb and would be a good choice for butterfly garden or sensory garden.

Instructions for growing
a sage container herb garden.

Step
1: Gather what you need to grow a sage container
garden. Various sizes in containers, potting
soil, compost, bag of rocks, fertilizer, assortment of nursery grown sage
plants, grass clippings, garden gloves, garden tools
and hose.Step 2:
Plan your sage arrangement for your containers. You
may want to display the various container sizes in groups on a sunny section of
your patio, or in your garden. Decide which sage plants work with your color scheme..Step
3: Prepare containers for planting.
Turn the container over and look for adequate drainage. Add a layer
of small rocks to the bottom of the container. These rocks will aid in
water drainage. Fill the containers with moist all purpose potting soil
mixed with compost.Step
4: Dig a hole in the center of the
container that is the same depth and width as the nursery container.
Remove the sage from the nursery container. Use your hands to untangle the roots. Gently pull the roots away from the root
ball. Set the sage in the center of center of hole. Place the roots
on the soil to encourage them to grow outward. Fill the hole with soil
and water well.

View video on herb container gardens for apartments:

Tips:Plant sage herb
outside after the danger of spring frost has past. Water as needed, sage
requires evenly moist soil until the plants are established. In late spring
when the ground has warmed to 70 degrees, apply a mulch of grass clippings
around the sage plants.

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